Spectacular Freight Train Wreck Here Thursday Evening

By Staff
Published on September 1, 1971
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These freight cars were not intended to be three abreast, but that is practically how they ended up as a result of the train wreck late Thursday afternoon on the Grand Trunk main line between Port Huron and Chicago, through Imlay City.
These freight cars were not intended to be three abreast, but that is practically how they ended up as a result of the train wreck late Thursday afternoon on the Grand Trunk main line between Port Huron and Chicago, through Imlay City.
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One freight car is crossways of the track, while another lies partly on top of a flat car. Farther down the embankment is another car too much in the shadow to be seen clearly.
One freight car is crossways of the track, while another lies partly on top of a flat car. Farther down the embankment is another car too much in the shadow to be seen clearly.

The following is reprinted through the kind permission of C.
Clair Gross, Editor and Publisher of The Imlay City Times, Imlay
City, Michigan.

The article was sent to us by G. W. Topham, 3492 McKeen Lake R.
D., Columbiaville, Michigan. The accident took place on April
2,1970, in the afternoon.

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